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Jimmy Carter

  • Joe Biden touches the casket of Jimmy Carter after delivering the eulogy at former president’s funeral.

    US politics live with Chris Stein

    Joe Biden hails Jimmy Carter’s character in eulogy at memorial service celebrating former president’s long life – latest updates

  • *** BESTPIX *** State Funeral Held In Washington DC For Former President Jimmy Carter<br />WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 09: The casket bearing the remains of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrives inside Washington National Cathedral for his state funeral on January 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Joe Biden declared today a national day of mourning for Carter, the 39th President of the United States, who died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia. Following the state funeral, Carter’s remains will be returned to Plains, Georgia where he will be interred after a private family service. (Photo by Haiyun Jiang-Pool/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***” src=”https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7ead54e4117ac9b17e5ffde28f14e8d5955c976a/0_150_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none” loading=”eager” data-chromatic=”ignore”></picture></div>
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    Coffin of Jimmy Carter covered in US flag is borne up the aisle past dignitaries including President Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and former presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump

    The Guardian view on Jimmy Carter’s funeral: requiem for a good man and a better era

  • Flag-draped casket in spotlight

    Jimmy Carter funeral: citizens, politicians and loved ones say goodbye – in pictures

  • Biden hails Jimmy Carter’s strength of character in eulogy at state funeral

  • Letter: Jimmy Carter obituary

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    Man arrested for trying to bring machete into US Capitol visitor center

    Three knives also found in bag as X-ray machine screened people going into building to pay respects to Jimmy Carter

  • FILE - President Jimmy Carter prepares to make a national television address from the Oval Office at the White House, April 25, 1980, in Washington, on the failed mission to rescue the Iran hostages. (AP Photo, File)

    Iran hostages reflect on a crisis that defined Jimmy Carter’s presidency: ‘A fine man that did his best’

    When revolutionary students seized the US embassy in Tehran, they initiated a 444-day ordeal that had a huge impact on Carter in both political and human terms

  • US-POLITICS-FUNERAL-CARTER<br />Members of a military honor cordon transfer the flag-draped casket of former US President Jimmy Carter to a hearse during an arrival ceremony in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on January 7, 2025. Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia. (Photo by Samuel Corum / AFP) (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)” src=”https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f6ae7165b9a4c9d4145f9e575aab5b283325ec92/0_170_5088_3053/master/5088.jpg?width=240&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none” loading=”lazy” data-chromatic=”ignore”></picture></div>
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<h3><svg viewBox=President Jimmy Carter was an antidote to politics as spectacle

    Ro Khanna

    Jimmy Carter represented politics at its highest calling

  • crowd of people gather around casket draped with US flag

    US politics live with Chris Stein

    Jimmy Carter lies in state at US Capitol, with Kamala Harris holding eulogy – as it happened

    Former US president’s funeral to be held on Thursday; vice-president also expected to lay wreath at ceremony

  • people in uniform walk casket down road as person salutes

    Jimmy Carter’s remains arrive in Washington DC for state funeral rites

    From Georgia, body of late ex-president brought to US capital nearly 44 years after he left in humbling defeat

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    Jimmy Carter proved that decency in politics is possible

    Letter: The underrated quality isn’t consigned to a bygone era and can flourish again the public sphere, says Rev Mike Corcoran

  • FILE - President Jimmy Carter speaks against a backdrop of solar panels at the White House, June 21, 1979, in Washington. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges, File)

    ‘He was prescient’: Jimmy Carter, the environment and the road not taken

    The ex-president was a pioneer on renewable energy and land conservation but his 1980 defeat was a ‘fork in the road’

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    All five living US presidents expected to come together to mourn Jimmy Carter

  • Jimmy Carter is driven through the streets on a horse and carriage and waves at Geordie well-wishers

    I saw Jimmy Carter sink a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale and promise to change the world

    Ed Vulliamy

  • A boy salutes on side of road as cars drive past.

    Days-long funeral procession for Jimmy Carter begins in south Georgia

    Motorcade with flag-draped casket heads to boyhood home in Plains before moving to Atlanta, then Washington

  • Jonathan Freedland

    How will 2025 turn out? The life of Jimmy Carter offers an unexpected clue

    Jonathan Freedland

    Dismissed as a loser at the time, the former US president left behind an enduring legacy – with lessons for today, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

  • Donald Trump says he will attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral – video

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    Donald Trump says he plans to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral

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    For a global leader what stood out was Jimmy Carter’s humility and lack of ego

    The Georgian was a campaigner for human rights, democracy and public health – and a devoted husband

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